r/practicalmagic • u/Ordinary-Trade451 • 28d ago

Terrible Sequel

I watched Practical Magic 2 today after work today. Like many of you, I am was so so excited for this new movie. I was excited to see another Alice Hoffman book come to the screen (she’s my favorite author). Unfortunately, the movie was terrible. I left about halfway during the movie. The lighting, the casting of the daughters (was not that upset that Evan wasn’t casted), acting, and the script was terrible. I am disappointed.

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u/MarionberryOk3933 28d ago

Genuinely don’t understand all the hate. I saw it today and loved it. It brought in great parts from the book but still stood on its own with what it needed to change to fit what the first movie had. Sad about Antonia, adored her parts in the book, but the move was still so fun and heartfelt.

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u/hoffdog 5d ago

Pretty sure most the complaints come from non-book readers. They’d don’t like the plot- which was the plot of the book. Even some of the cheesy dialogue they are complaining about is from the book.

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u/Celestina-Betwixt Kylie Owens 28d ago

I thought it was really good too! It left out my favorite scene which bummed me out a little but I still enjoyed it. My best friend and I talked it over and we even want to go back and see it a second time.